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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose temptation and transcendence does Campbell discuss in this section?
(a) Buddha
(b) David
(c) Jesus
(d) Common man

2. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?
(a) The Mover
(b) The Hero
(c) The God
(d) The Victor

3. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?
(a) Inexhaustible energies
(b) Archetypes
(c) Dreams
(d) Journeys

4. In spite of humanity's fondness for happy endings, [life] has only one ending - what is it?
(a) Sadness
(b) Death
(c) Nothingness
(d) Peace

5. Who is the figure that returns with the Ten Commandments?
(a) David
(b) Moses
(c) Jesus
(d) Jacob

Short Answer Questions

1. "______ is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."

2. What is the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible?

3. "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of ___________..."

4. What kind of myth is the story of the man who dreamed of killing his father and taking care of his mother?

5. Heroes in what tend to bring enlightenment to the community?

(see the answer key)

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